Month: October 2015
In Allaying Darwin’s Doubt, Two Cambrian Experts Still Come Up Short
For biologists hoping to find an evolutionary solution to the Cambrian explosion, Doug Erwin and Graham Budd offer little comfort.
Countering Arguments You Don’t Like, the Passive-Aggressive Way
Remember the Barnes & Noble mis-shelving imbroglio?
Darwin and “Providential Design”
The central issue for theists in the debate over Darwin is whether evolution is really unguided.
Seeking Alien “Megastructures” Around a Puzzling Star, Astronomers Debate Intelligent Design
Though the phrase isn’t used, this news is clearly about design detection and when such a determination is triggered.
From Bioethicists, a New Method for Normalizing Suicide
A big new drive in bioethics and euthanasia advocacy is VSED, “voluntary stop eating and drinking,” a/k/a suicide by starvation.